Case Studies
The following examples demonstrate how our customers successfully exploit MAGMASOFT® in order to realize better casting quality, cost savings or reduction of development times.
Castings with a tailwind
The world‘s leading manufacturer of wind power turbines, Vestas Wind Systems A/S, with its headquarter in Jutland, Denmark, strongly supports the development of wind power casting technology. The subsidiary Vestas Castings Group AS is the key supplier of castings for their wind power turbines. Compared to welded parts, castings offer much ...
Solving internal casting defects
Triumph in England is a strong advocate of MAGMASOFT® and asks all suppliers of critical components, like the fuel distributor housing shown here, to use casting process simulation.
Going beyond just finding the shrink...
It is not just shrinkage that determines the final quality of a steel casting. Casting process simulation of steel castings also goes much further than just finding the shrink. In the case shown here, initially the gating and risering was developed for a drive tumbler that produced a high quality part, but the customer’s main interest was ...
Shortening cycle times in cylinder head production
In the development of a high performance, economical engine, a cylinder head design was required that would withstand the higher combustion pressures. The existing design of this part led to long cycle times. It was necessary to reduce solidification times without compromising the casting performance in order to reduce the cost per head. One opt...
Getting it right the first time
Risering of castings is supported through the determination of the local thermal modulus. This modulus describes the relationship between the heat content of a volume and the cooling power of the surrounding surfaces. For example, the hot spot with the largest thermal modulus (in this case 1.13 cm) must be fed by a riser with a higher modulu...
- Die casting
- Casting quality
- Cast component optimization
- Profitability and resource efficiency
- Casting design
- Automotive applications
- Heavy industries and wind power
- Permanent mold
- Cast iron
- Steel
- Nonferrous
- Core and mold
- Tool and pattern making
- Heat treatment
- Microstructure and properties
- Stresses and distortion
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